Hagg
surname · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Hagg is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country. In English, recorded as from ON Hagi; first attested Saewi Hagg c1100 OEByn (So).
- SESweden1 in 3K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 433K
- FIFinland1 in 5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Hagg itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 183 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.0K (inferred from the name graph)
3,354 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hägg in SE Sweden, FI Finland, BJ Benin.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from ON Hagi; first attested Saewi Hagg c1100 OEByn (So)
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Hagg is read(measured from records)
Hagg is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English74%
from ON Hagi; first attested Saewi Hagg c1100 OEByn (So)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
- German7.9%
Variante von Hack; Bearer count 247.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 6: Familiennamen aus Rufnamen
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Hagg counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #338 | 3,354 | 1 in 3K | 3.4K | Hägg | 47 |
| FI Finland | — | 1,123 | 1 in 5K | 1.1K | Hägg | 15 |
| US United States | — | 769 | 1 in 433K | 866 | Hagg | 183 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈600 est. | ≈1 in 134K | — | Hagg | 60 |
| BJ Benin | — | ≈440 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Hägg | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 145 | 1 in 119K | 145 | Hagg | 17 |
3,354 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Hagg is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
from Old Norse Hagi, which has been identified as a byname from hagr ‘deft’, ‘dextrous’, although it could equally well be a habitational name meaning ‘the enclosure’, see Hagen.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
ornamental name from hagg ‘bird cherry’ (Prunus padus). This is one of the surnames drawn from the vocabulary of nature and adopted more or less arbitrarily in the 19th century.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
variant of Haack.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Russell Haggb. 1938AUfilmmaker
- Walter Haggb. 1948ATAustrian diplomat
- Edith Haggb. 1954ATAustrian journalist (1954-2006)
- Nicolaus Haggb. 1967ATAustrian actor and author
- Eric Haggb. 1989USplayer of American football
- Sarah Haggb. 2002DEGerman association football player
- Valentin Haggb. 2004ATAustrian actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 17 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Hagg mean, and where does it come from?
- from ON Hagi; first attested Saewi Hagg c1100 OEByn (So) Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- In which country does Hagg have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 3.4 thousand people named Hagg, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hägg.
- Where is Hagg most common?
- Hagg is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 3.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Hagg?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 3,354 people named Hagg, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Hagg compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Hagg is the 338th most common surname of 187,334 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/haggThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Hagg” — the 338th most common surname in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.